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2006 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL NO. 940
Offered January 11, 2006
Prefiled January 10, 2006
A BILL authorizing the Marine Resources Commission to convey certain lands in and over the Rappahannock River.
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Patron-- Morgan
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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  § 1. That the Marine Resources Commission is hereby authorized to convey fee simple title to Jerry W. Ferguson, and his successors and assigns, upon such terms and conditions as the Commission, with the approval of the Governor and the Attorney General, shall deem proper, a causeway beginning at the termination point of a 15-foot-wide easement adjacent to the Rappahannock River leading northeasterly from State Route 600, and connecting a manmade island at the end of the causeway, in and over the submerged lands lying within the Rappahannock River at Butylo, in Jamaica Magisterial District, Middlesex County, and more particularly described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the north side of causeway at the low water mark said point being on the southern line of property standing in the name of Joseph W. Bozeman, said point being south 89° 11’ 20” east for a distance of 127 feet more or less from a pipe at the southwest corner of said Bozeman property; thence along the north side of causeway north 89° 19’ 19” east for approximately a distance of 260’ to the low water mark of the Rappahannock River along the causeway; thence along low water along the causeway south 89° 47’ 46” east for a distance of 455.96 feet to the southwest corner of the “Island;” thence the following courses and distances along low water around the “Island” north 15 °06' 22” east for a distance of 140.92 feet, north 78° 47’ 57” east for a distance of 99.83 feet, south 49° 12’ 40’ east for a distance of 37.11 feet, south 43° 51’ 34” east for a distance of 12.40 feet, south 20° 08’ 33” east for a distance of 24.08 feet, south 09° 32’ 18” east for a distance of 29.80 feet, south 03° 16’ 13” west for a distance of 68.38 feet, north 89° 50’ 20” west for a distance of 13.11 feet, south 65° 33’ 30” west for a distance of 103.22 feet, north 25° 04’ 52” west for a distance of 47.08 feet, north 50° 43’ 18” west for a distance of 13.35 feet, north 77° 23’ 43” west for a distance of 14.85 feet to a point, said point being approximately southwest corner of the “Island” and its intersection with the south side of the “causeway”, thence along low water of the “causeway” south 89° 12’ 11” west for a distance of 793.76 feet to the low water of the “causeway” and beach, thence north 21°40’ 23” east for a distance of 23.96 feet to the point of beginning containing approximately 1.1 acres more or less as referenced on a survey prepared by Jerry Marion, dated October 5, 1999, as recorded in Middlesex County Deed Book 303, page 351, plat book 14, page 344.

The deed of conveyance shall be in a form approved by the Attorney General.